2025 MEETING

2025 MCBK Global Meeting

October 27-28, 2025 (October 28-29 in Asia and Australia)

ZOOM LINKS TO JOIN THE MEETING

DAY 1, SESSION 2 - October 27, 2025 at 7pm US Eastern Time

https://umich.zoom.us/j/95106091440

DAY 2, SESSION 1 - October 28, 2025 at 9am US Eastern Time

https://umich.zoom.us/j/91047405292

DAY 2, SESSION 2 - October 28, 2025 at 7pm US Eastern Time

https://umich.zoom.us/j/98621241747

"Globalizing a Second Knowledge Revolution for Better Health"

Fully Online: October 27 –28, 2025 in Europe and the Americas
October 28 and 29 in Asia and Australia

What's the Second Knowledge Revolution?

The 15th century invention of the moveable-type printing press spawned the first knowledge revolution which enabled mass access to the world's knowledge in human-readable form. In the 21st century, an ecosystem of computable knowledge can spawn a second revolution which enables mass action: sharing and implementation of knowledge at unprecedented scale. Human society is still improving health using 15th-century methods. It's time to move ahead. MCBK can make the revolution happen.

Global MCBK is evolving into four chapters: in North America, the U.K., continental Europe, and Australasia. Join your colleagues from around the world at this important meeting.

The meeting will take place over two days, and each day there will be two sessions to accommodate as much of the world as possible.

The eighth annual meeting will have two 4-hour sessions on Day 1, Session 1 will run from 9 AM to 1 PM U.S. Eastern Time on October 27, and Session 2 will run from 10 AM to 2 PM Australian Eastern Time on October 28 (7 PM to 11 PM U.S. Eastern Time on October 27).

Day 2 will consist of interactive sessions and lightning talk presentations, with two sessions at the same times as Day 1.

Day 1 speakers include:

Clare Morgan and Shaun Rowark, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), UK
Aziz Boxwala, Elimu Informatics, USA
Hamish Fraser, Brown University, USA
Niels Peek, Cambridge University, UK
Karin Verspoor, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
Paul Glasziou, Bond University, Australia

Day 2 sessions include:

Henrique Martins, ISCTE-IUL, Portugal
Adam Dunn, University of Sydney, Australia
Lightning Talk presentations
Workshops on:
- Setting Evidence-Based Medicine on FHIR
- Representing Computable Knowledge as FAIR Digital Objects
- Role of Business Process Modeling as Computable Knowledge
- Improving FAIRability of your research outputs with RO-Crate
- Open Forum on Innovative Librarian Engagements in MCBK
- Potential for LLMs in Narrative Guideline Translation to Computable Knowledge
- Building Bridges: Converging the Interoperable Data Ecosystem

2025 MCBK Global Meeting Day 1 Program.pdf

2025 MCBK Global Meeting Day 2 Program.pdf

Global Timings

Day 1, Session 1, primarily for participants in the Americas and Europe, will be:

9 AM – 1 PM U.S. Eastern time, October 27
10 AM – 2 PM in Argentina and Brazil, October 27
1 PM – 5 PM in the U.K., October 27
2 PM – 6 PM in Central Europe, October 27

Day 1, Session 2, primarily for participants in Australia and Asia, will be:

10 AM – 2 PM in Australia (EST), October 28
7 AM – 11 AM in China, October 28
7 PM – 11 PM U.S. Eastern time, October 27
4 PM – 8 PM U.S. Pacific time, October 27

Day 2, Session 1, primarily for participants in the Americas and Europe, will be:

9 AM – 1:40 PM U.S. Eastern time, October 28
10 AM – 2:40 PM in Argentina and Brazil, October 28
1 PM – 5:40 PM in the U.K., October 28
2 PM – 6:40 PM in Central Europe, October 28

Day 2, Session 2, primarily for participants in Australia and Asia, will be:

10 AM – 1:40 PM in Australia (EST), October 29
7 AM – 10:40 AM in China, October 29
7 PM – 10:40 PM U.S. Eastern time, October 28
4 PM – 7:40 PM U.S. Pacific time, October 28

Speaker Information

2025 MCBK Global Speaker Bios.pdf

Accepted Lightning Talk Abstracts

2025 MCBK Global Lightning Talk Abstracts.pdf

Lightning Talk Submission Information

Lightning Talk Submissions Closed

Lightning talks are brief, focused presentations of current work to mobilize CBK. Selected presenters will pre-record five-minute presentations with a maximum of five slides. Abstracts of all accepted lightning talks will be published in the Learning Health Systems open access journal. Some submissions not selected for presentation will still be included in the published set.

Deadline: Submit your MCBK lightning talk Abstract by

Wednesday, September 3, 2025 at 11:59 PM U.S. Eastern Time.

Using the form available here, provide an abstract of no more than 500 words describing the content of your proposed lightning talk along with your author(s) information and the thematic area(s) addressed (see below).

Submitted lightning talks must conform to at least one of the following thematic areas:

Synergy between goal-based CBK and generative AI
CBK governance and policy
Standards, interoperability, metadata for CBK
Technical models and infrastructures for CBK
CBK content creation
Ethics, equity, inclusion, & trust related to CBK
Evaluation of real world CBK implementation
Education for CBK

All lightning talks should address the concept of MCBK as described in the MCBK Manifesto.

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